Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of Michael Dunn accused of firing 8 bullets into an SUV filled with teenagers and killing 17 year old Jordan Davis over loud music.

Michael Dunn claimed he heard threats over very loud music and he feared for his life. No weapon was found.

CFNews13 JACKSONVILLE — Prosecutors said witnesses will testify that a Brevard County man on trial in Jacksonville intended to kill an unarmed teenager outside a convenience store after an argument over loud music.

Michael Dunn’s first-degree murder trial got underway Thursday, one day after lawyers selected a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates.

The 47-year-old software developer from Satellite Beach claims he shot 17-year-old Jordan Davis in November 2012 because he felt threatened and thought the teen had a gun.

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114 Responses to Michael Dunn Trial – Day 2

Hello,
Sorry, that I joined you guys this late, but I had to prepare myself mentally to go through this again, especially since it happened in Florida. Btw, you can look at Dunn and see racist all in his face and he is a die-hard racist at that.

Yahtc….to your 1:09 post. I have the same pistol but not nickle plated. It is a PT 92 Taurus, made in Brazil. It is a clone to a P92 Beretta.

It is advertised to hold 15 rounds in the magazine and you can add1 in the chamber for 16 rounds. However, it will actually hold 16 in the magazine for 16 + 1.

I believe I read there are 6 rounds in the magazine remaining and I’ll have to recheck this but I believe he fired 8 shots. One report says he fired 10 and one 8 to 10. I also read there are 8 rounds remaining in the mag, but he could have added any amount after the murder.

I just found the evidence dump and it looks like 9 rounds hit the SUV and there are 5 rounds in the magazine. That’s not to say one or more rounds missed the SUV and the casings have not been found, that is, they were in the Jetta and he threw them away.

The only thing of concern to me would be did he have a live round in the chamber to begin with.

After what Zimmerman’s jury did I will never again believe that it is possible to predict what a jury might do. I know that twelve jurors are better than six and diversity is better than no diversity. But those are general statements and jurists are individuals, anything could happen. Despite all that went wrong, it was a single jurist, B37, who is responsible for setting Zimmerman free and denying justice to the Trayvon Martin’s family.

That is a hell of a lot of rage. Then he makes up the story about the imaginary gun.

Shortly after this happened, I read that he went back to Satellite Beach after spending the night in St. Augustine. He called a “friend” who met with him before he turned himself in. I can’t remember what the guy’s credentials were, but I remember thinking at the time that this is when they cooked up a story for the cops that they thought would get him off based on Florida’s SYG law.

I was looking for old articles that described Dunn’s actions in Satellite Beach and it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack at this point. But it is really important. His girlfriend said that he did not tell her about a gun. People are asking why he didn’t report the incident to the police if someone pointed a gun and threatened him.

We know there was no gun and until Dunn got back to Satellite Beach and consulted with at least one associate, there was not even a story about a gun. Dunn owned a software business, knew some people, and after he sobered up he knew he was in a lot of trouble.
So they came up with a SYG story, the imaginary gun that is conspicuously absent from everything Dunn said and did prior to turning himself in.

He is hoping for racists among the white jurists, that’s all it could be, because every single fact in this case supports a murder conviction.

Ametia, good question. When I lived in Jacksonville (50s and 60s), there were a lot of black people. It turns out that the black population is 29.9 percent of Duval County. Blacks are 16.6 percent of the population of Florida as a whole. So, there is a concentration in Duval County which would lead one to think there should be more black folks on this jury. As I said yesterday, why isn’t there a black MAN or two on the jury?

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